URL Protocol

The following table lists the SharePoint Foundation RPC Protocol methods that can be used in URL protocol to make HTTP GET requests. For more information about a specific method, click the command to see the related RPC method topic.

Note

The ability for URL commands to return HTML, such as Display in the following table, has become limited by security changes in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. If strict browser file handling is enabled, the return data will be marked as an attachment and forced for download. This applies to the URL commands in general, but especially to the commands that are meant to render the results directly in the browser.

A special parameter that is used within the Cmd=Display command that opens a view of the document libraries within a site, a view of a specific document library, or a view of a folder within a document library that is used in a dialog box for opening or saving files; or opens the property form that is used when saving a file.

FileDialogFilterValue to set filters for a view and to return the list of all files of a specified type from a document library according to file name extension (for example, *.doc, *.ppt, or *.xls).

FilterFieldn to specify the name of a field in the database, where n is an integer that is limited only by the number of fields allowed in the database table or by the length allowed for the URL field.

FilterValuen to specify the string value on which to filter a field, where n is an integer that is limited only by the length allowed for the URL field.